The last time I heard about New Zealand’s Hell Pizza, they were buying a guy’s soul to get publicity. (Meh. It’s been done before.) And now they’re back with something a little more blasphemous. Their new billboards feature hot cross buns… and a reference to Jesus: I don’t see what’s so bad about that… they’re acknowledging Jesus’ existence. You’d think Christians would appreciate that! But they don’t: Anglican Church media officer Lloyd Ashton said the campaign was disrespectful to many… Read more
We all love crashing polls, but most of them don’t have a lot of meaning. They’re often there to bring hits to a website without having any real significance. But here’s a case where your votes could make a difference. A few years ago, my friend Dale McGowan wrote a wonderful book called Parenting Beyond Belief. It’s all about how to raise children without religion, and it features a variety of perspectives on issues so many atheist parents have to… Read more
Terry Jones is the pastor who threatened to burn a Koran on September 11th and finally went through with it a few weeks ago. In response, there have been riots in Afghanistan leading to the deaths of several people. Is Jones to blame for all this? Even if he’s not, should Christians have to apologize for or defend his actions? That was the question posed by the Washington Post On Faith blog and my response is now up at their… Read more
If you weren’t aware that the National Day of Prayer was only a month away, you will be after you see this horrific video: So PRAY… or else God will make dark clouds appear in the sky. And you’ll have to stop playing your Wii. Side note: I wonder if the same person (or group) made the infamous “Gathering Storm” ad in 2009… (via Kate Shellnutt and Hugh Kramer) Read more
I’ve heard right-wingers say that college is a bastion of secularism — come in as a Christian, leave as an atheist. Here’s Dennis Prager explaining the “problem”: … increasingly large numbers of men and women attend university, and Western universities have become essentially secular (and leftist) seminaries. Just as the agenda of traditional Christian and Jewish seminaries is to produce religious Christians and religious Jews, the agenda of Western universities is to produce (left-wing) secularists. The difference is that Christian… Read more
